Sensible Life : : A Micro-ontology of the Image / / Emanuele Coccia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Coccia, Emanuele,
• MitwirkendeR: Attell, Kevin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Attell, Kevin.; Stuart, Scott Alan.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Commonalities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (126 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction --; 1. Sensible Life --; 2. Man and Animal --; 3. Intentional Species --; Physics of the Sensible --; 4. The World of the Sensible --; 5. Intermediaries --; 6. Mirrors --; 7. The Place of the Images --; 8. The Image in the Mirror --; 9. Micro- ontology --; 10. Transparency --; 11. The Multiplication of the Real --; 12. The Primacy of the Sensible --; 13. Natural Theater --; 14. The Unity of the World --; Anthropology of the Sensible --; 15. Vita Activa --; 16. The Sensification of the Spirit --; 17. Medial Existence --; 18. Intentional Projections --; 19. Becoming What One Sees --; 20. Losing Oneself in Images --; 21. Dream --; 22. The Intrabody --; 23. Being Constantly Elsewhere --; 24. Seeds --; 25. Influences --; 26. On the Surface of the Skin --; 27. Metaphysics of Clothing --; 28. Fashion --; 29. Making the World Our Skin --; 30. The Body of Clothing --; 31. Ethos --; 32. Living in Images --; Sources --; Notes
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823267446; 9783110729023
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823267446?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Emanuele Coccia.

We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the world around us. But sensibility is not just a faculty: We are sensible objects both to ourselves and to others, and our life is through and through a sensible life.This book, now translated into five languages, rehabilitates sensible existence from its marginalization at the hands of modern philosophy, theology, and politics. Coccia begins by defining the ontological status of images. Not just an internal modification of our consciousness, an image has an intermediate ontological status that differs from that of objects or subjects. The book's second part explores our interactions with images in dream, fashion, and biological facts like growth and generation. Our life, Coccia argues, is the life of images.